Louis Nkembi (MSc)

Member, ERuDeF Board of Trustees

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Profile

Founder and President/CEO of the Environment and Rural Development Foundation. Resource management economist with over 21 years of experience in conservation, rural development and community-based project development and management. Research and field experience areas include social aspects of biodiversity conservation, agroforestry development, anthropology, agricultural development, project development, planning, monitoring and evaluation, community-based forestry management, forestry governance and environmental policy, socio-economics and livelihood development, participatory methodologies, strategic planning, production and marketing economics, facilitation of workshops, protected area management, social forestry, on-farm diagnostic surveys, conservation management, conservation education, capacity building and institutional strengthening, administrative and financial management as well as climate change. Specialist in grants writing and fundraising.

Management Experience

Programme Development and Management include project design, grants development and management specialist, budgets development and programme planning, supervision, evaluation, and training of staff, technical, financial and administrative management. From a 5000 USD budget in 2002 in ERuDeF, he has raised the budget portfolio upto 400 000USD in 2011.

Organizational development involving project conception and design, strategic planning, team building, development and training of staff, networking at national and international levels, capacity building and institutional strengthening, advocacy and lobby. He has also been able to move from a single birds and education project in 2002 to a multi-partner SW Cameroon Biodiversity Programme in Cameroon involving key national and international partners from Europe (Fauna and Flora International, UK and African Conservation Foundation UK, Man & Nature France, Transpetrol Foundation, Netherlands, Tusk, UK) to USA (Trees for the Future, USA).

Development Cooperation ranging from the ability to work with a broad spectrum of stakeholders including people of different ethic origins and races, the government, NGOs/CBOs, local communities, partners and donors. An MoU has been approved between ERuDeF and the Government of Cameroon in 2012 and ERuDeF is now recognized as the main government of Cameroon conservation partner in the Lebialem Highlands.

xi. October 2000: ‘Community-based management of tropical rain-forest through the non-timber forests resources: Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary Project experience, South West Cameroon’. A paper prepared for the International Conference on Ethno botany, University of Georgia, USA.

xii. May 2001: ‘Biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes’. A paper presented at the Environmental Leaders’ Forum, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, New York, USA.

xiii. May 2001: Biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes’. A poster presented at the UNESCO/Columbia University conference on Biodiversity and Society, Columbia University USA.

xiv. September 2001: Community-based Management of NTFP in the Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary Project Area, South West Cameroon: Economics and Implications on Gender. A paper prepared for the SEAN on NTFP Conference, 16-19 September. Philippines

xvi. August 2003. Wildlife and protected area management in Cameroon: Issues, challenges and perspectives. Paper presented at the International Seminar on Protected Area Management. Consortium for International Protected Area Management. University of Montana, USA

xvii. November 2003 . Development of a collaborative management model for the Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon. Paper presented at the West and Central African Regional Meeting for Wildlife Conservation Society. Limbe, Cameroon.

xviii. January 2004 . Building community-based institutions for wildlife conservation and sustainable livelihood development in the Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary, Cameroon. Paper presented at the annual conference of Volunteers Service Organisation, Bamenda, Cameroon.

ii. Institutional Management Framework for Community Based Conservation in the BMWS Cameroon (2005)

iii. The Indigenous People and Wildlife Conservation in the Banyang-Mbo Wildlife Sanctuary, SW Cameroon. (2004)

iv. A survey of the status and distribution of the endangered Bannerman’s Turaco, Banded Wattle-eye and Bamenda Apalis in the Lebialem Highlands. Final report submitted to the African Bird Club c/o Birdlife International, UK. (2005)

v. A survey and conservation of the endemic montane birds of Lebialem Highlands, SW Cameroon. Final report to The Rufford Foundation, UK. (2005)

The distribution, status and conservation of the globally threatened trees of the Mt Cameroon Region. Progress Report to the Fauna and Flora International, UK/Global Trees Campaign Programme (April, 2012)

Community-based agroforestry development and climate change adaptation in Cameroon. A status report submitted to Trees for the Future, USA (2011)

The distribution, status and conservation of the globally threatened birds species of the Lebialem Highlands, SW Cameroon. A final report submitted to Rufford Foundation, UK (2011).

The survey of the distribution and status of the Cross River gorillas in the Lebialem Highlands and Mone East Forests, SW Cameroon (2009). Final Report submitted to Worldwide Fund for Nature and Fauna and Flora International.

The survey of the future of the communities and forests around the proposed Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Lebialem Highlands, SW Cameroon (2009). Final Report submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service

Commuity-based management and conservation of the Cross River gorillas in the Lebialem-Mone Forest Landscape, SW Cameroon (2009). Final Report submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The socio-economic survey of the households in the Lebialem-Mone Forest Landscape, SW Cameroon (2008). Final report submitted to Worldwide Fund for Nature

The Conservation of great apes in the Lebialem Highlands of Cameroon. Final Project Report to Forestry Bureau/Conservation Division, Government of Taiwan (2007)

The status and distribution of Cross River gorillas in the Lebialem-Mone Forest Landscape, SW Cameroon. Final Report submitted to WorldWide Fund for Nature (2008)

The Development of a Community Management Model for Great Apes Conservation at Bechati-Lebialem Forest, South West Cameroon. Final Report submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service (2009)

The status of great apes populations in the Lebialem Highlands, SW Cameroon. 2005. Final Report submitted to Fauna and Flora International.

A Critical Evaluation of the Impact of the Economic Crisis on the households in the Western Highlands of Cameroon. OCISCA Project, University of Dschang. Final Evaluation Report. 1990.

A Mid-term Review of the World Bank funded National Agricultural Extension and Research Programme, Ministry of Agriculture, Yaounde, Cameroon. 1996.

On-farm Diagnostic Survey and Prioritisation of Farmers Needs in the South West Province of Cameroon. National Agricultural Extension and Research Programme. Ministry of Agriculture. Final Report. 1997.

On-farm Evaluation and Survey Methods in Rural Farms: Case of Peasant Farmers in the South West Province of Cameroon. 1996.

Peered Reviewed Papers

Nkemnyi MF, Nkembi, LN, Nkemanteh, AE and Nku EM. 2011. The Cross River gorilla and large mammals species diversity in the in the Lebialem-Mone Forest Landscape, Cameroon. Journal of Biodiversity and Ecological Sciences

Nkembi, LN. Neba, KS and Benjamin Adelstone. (in prep). Community management of Agroforestry in Cameroon, Impacts, Experiences and Perspectives: Assessment of Trees for the Future Presence in Cameroon since 1990.

Nkembi, LN. Hodu F and Lefo EA, (in prep). Towards a Semi-autonomous Model for Community Wildlife Management in Cameroon: Implications for the Government of Cameroon from the Tofala Hill Wildlife Sanctuary.

Nkembi, LN. Hodu, NF. Muh BF, Asoh, BN and Allen, ET (in prep). The Tofala Gorillas: the Battle for Survival of a Critcally Endangered Species in a Fragile Landscape.